Henryson

British  

/ ˈhɛnrɪsən /

noun

1. Robert. ?1430–?1506, Scottish poet. His works include Testament of Cresseid (1593), a sequel to Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, the 13 Moral Fables of Esope the Phrygian, and the pastoral dialogue Robene and Makyne

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These images were captured by the photographer Maxine Henryson in an ongoing eight-year collaboration they called “I-Dea The Goddess Within.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2022

Naomi Henryson, 102, offered up the secret to a long life: “There is no secret.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2017

Oblivion had overtaken Gower and Occleve, and Lydgate and Stephen Hawes, and Skelton, and Henryson and James I. of Scotland, and well-nigh Chaucer himself—all the mediaeval poetry of the schools, in short.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Robert Henryson, flourished about 1430: Robin and Makyne, a pastoral; and a continuation of Chaucer's Troilus and Creseide, entitled "The Testament of Fair Creseide."

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee

Fables, Latin, 178, by Lydgate, 498, by Henryson, 508 ff.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand